Cumulative exposure to socioeconomic disadvantage across the life course may be inversely associated with coronary heart disease (CHD); the mechanisms are not fully clear. An objective of this study was to determine whether cumulative life-course socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with CHD incidence in a well-characterized US cohort that had directly assessed childhood and adulthood mea...

As part of the introduction and roll-out of a universal childhood live-attenuated influenza vaccination programme, 4–11 year-olds were vaccinated in seven pilot areas in England in the 2013/14 influenza season. This paper presents the uptake and impact of the programme for a range of disease indicators. End-of-season uptake was defined as the number of children in the target population who rece...

BACKGROUND The potential population-level impact of private-sector initiatives for tuberculosis (TB) case finding in Southeast Asia remains uncertain. In 2011, the Indus Hospital TB Control Program in Karachi, Pakistan, undertook an aggressive case-finding campaign that doubled notification rates, providing an opportunity to investigate potential population-level effects. METHODS We construct...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION To investigate whether donor liver steatosis increases the incidence of new-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) in liver transplant recipients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed liver transplant recipients at Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai, China, from April 2001 to December 2014. The final analysis involved 763 patients. The cumulative incidence of NO...

BACKGROUND Malignancy is a common complication after renal transplantation. Death with functioning graft and chronic graft loss are two competing outcomes in patients with post-transplant malignancies. OBJECTIVES The purpose of our study was to evaluate the risk factors associated with cumulative incidence of these two outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fine-Gray model was used for 266 cases wi...

Title: Highly-cited estimates of the cumulative incidence and recurrence of vulvovaginal candidiasis are inadequately documented